Eye-catching black and whites

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9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

The fine red brick Victoriana survives - the Bedford and Jag....probably not.

 

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[Amishtat]

Some right gems here! Keep 'em coming.. 

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[martc]

18 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Chinese tyre early adopter.

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Made-to-measure radiator-blind, 'suits you Sir'.

[lesapandre]

If these were all taken around the same time what strikes me - the latest car is is a 1970's HC Viva I think - is the low ownership of cars in this Manchester area, how poor people were still then, many cars are bangers (I'm assuming some of the ritzy cars are business owners), the lack of parking restrictions and the original condition of the Victorian houses, all with their lovely uniform original sash windows - which at the time wd have been at least 70 years old even then.

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6 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

A REAL Skoda Octavia! Fandabidozi!

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

These pictures remind me, so much of what I remember as kid living in a poor part of Birmingham in the late 60’s early 70’s. Cars were almost always dirty, usually with riveted bits and or odd coloured patches. The air stank of burning oil and unburnt fuel., plus it was difficult to tell what was parked and what was dumped as scrap was worthless so old cars were just parked up and forgotten about.

This seemed to change in the mid70’s or it could just be my parents moved to a posher neighbourhood!

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Rub thighs, it's a twin-exhaust Ventora.

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10 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

the original condition of the Victorian houses, all with their lovely uniform original sash windows - which at the time wd have been at least 70 years old even then.

My mother replaced the sash windows in our house in the late 80s.The house was built in 1889,and even then the originals weren't rotted beyond redemption.Whereas the main window in the kitchen extension,put in in 1976,was replaced in 1986 by my own fair hands due to the sill and bottom corner joints disintegrating.

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[HMC]

Bolton? 

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Fred Fearnley's Motor Mart.  Guess which one he's currently using as personal transport.

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Just now, HMC said:

Bolton? 

All formally listed as 'Manchester' 1968 to 72, but who knows?